Marion Esfandiari

[Marion Esfandiari @Pollyhound]

@mkpaa Congratulations! Another one in the bag! 👏👏👏

[Marion Esfandiari @Pollyhound]

@mkpaa Bravo! That was a nail biting watch.

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

Don’t ask much on here.
But I’m gonna ask you to take a moment to read this & pass it on to your crew.

We’re facing many crises. We need to start taking action. I’m not asking you to get out on the streets.

Just to pass on some knowledge.

For these guys.
For #bees
#retweet
🙏🏼

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

Mornin’ folks.

We’ve had a lot of people enquiring about and commenting on #bumblebees asleep on #flowers, especially at this time of year, so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.

Please retweet so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
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[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

🚨BREAKING ‼️ Excellent news that Court of Appeal has ruled Braverman's utterly inhumane, grotesquely immoral & totally unworkable #Rwanda scheme to be illegal too - & in clear breach of human rights law. Time for an asylum policy which treats people with respect & dignity.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

"Reducing asylum application backlog would make it harder for Rwanda policy to be cost effective, official analysis suggests"

This is a statistic so perverse it should be banned for indecency.

Deep breath, and let's dive in...

Basically the longer an asylum seeker is trapped in rubbish accommodation unable to work or live anything even approximating a normal life, the more it costs the state.

And the more it costs the state, the more it's "worth" to deter one additional migrant from coming here.

So if the Tories could make asylum seekers cost £1 million each, they could then claim that each additional asylum seeker deterred from coming here "saves" the UK £1 million, because that money won't have to be spent on them.

£10 million each, and the notional saving from deterrence would be £10 million. And so on.

In other words, the ROI of Rwanda as a deterrent only starts to look reasonable if you manage to make each asylum seeker very VERY expensive.

How do you do that? By slowing and slowing and slowing the processing of their application, so that they have to spend years and years and years trapped in a tiny room with a stranger, waiting.

In other words, the less efficient you are, the more your theoretical saving is, because the deterrent effect is worth more.

It's the sickest and most disgusting misuse of statistics I've ever seen, because it "legitimises" the very conscious and deliberate Tory policy to slow application processing down so that the visible backlog of asylum seekers grows and grows and there's an enemy for the RW tabloids to point at and other.

Beyond belief. And yet they are genuinely trying to pass this off as a genius strategy, rather than as a travesty that should see every one of the people responsible for formulating the plan in prison on human rights grounds.
https://t.co/o9WuMpcB28

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

This is not easy listening…

It’s absolutely harrowing.

And it reminds us why we won’t move on from any of this until we have answers

And until we have justice.

[Ben Davis @bendavis_86]

Every now and then something happens on TikTok that transcends social media and becomes a *work of art*

[Marion Esfandiari @Pollyhound]

I volunteer with this wonderful organisation. Someone I know must be an ideal fit. 😁

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[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.

[Marion Esfandiari @Pollyhound]

@mrnickharvey Sending healing wishes. ❤️

[Ben & Jerry's UK 🧡 @benandjerrysUK]

Psst. Right now the UK Government are trying to extinguish the right to asylum and remove the rights of some of the most vulnerable people in society.

So, here’s a few things they don't want you to be reminded of…

[Mawaan Rizwan 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @MawaanR]

🎵 Are You Checking Me Out or Are You Just a Racist? 🎵

NOW ON SPOTIFY! (and all other streaming platforms.
https://t.co/aZWBZ3BNcR

Music video coming next week. RT & share 😘

[Eleanor Jaskowska @EleanorJaskows1]

Not only have @KLM @KLM_UK @AirFranceKLM lost Liam’s bike and potentially ruined our trip of a lifetime they’ve lost a piece of bikepacking history. Please help us put pressure on them to find and return the Stooge so we can begin our adventure

[Seb Ate @Mrbaiti]

This lady has just spent 2 mins absolutely eviscerating the Conservatives on their record on EVERYTHING 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #BBCQT
“ I’m staggered that you think you’re succeeding…
Watch and listen!

[Dean Burnett (@drdeanburnett everywhere) @drdeanburnett]

If teens want socialise, they can go to youth centres or... ah

Well there's the pub, as... no?

At least they can hang around in a park... that's bad too?

So they simply stay home and... also wrong, you say?

So, what, they just stare at their phone all day...? OH COME ON!

[Jay Foreman @jayforeman]

Wait… what? They’re doing *this*…? **NOW**?? … on purpose?!! You hypocritical, gaslighting, contradicting-what-you-said,-like,-five-minutes-ago, planet-not-giving-a-shit-about PRICKS!

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

"I struggle to see how I could've run number 10... without having brief farewell events of a kind which at least as far as my participation was concerned did not fall foul of the rules."

Write them a card? Thank them on zoom? People couldn't hug their dying relatives ffs

[Skokholm Island @SkokholmIsland]

The Puffins are piling in. There has never been a landfall of this magnitude so early in the year.

[Marion Esfandiari @Pollyhound]

Thank you @GaryLineker; your situation prompted me to spend this morning volunteering with @derbysolidarity. I played word games, laughed, cried, ate biscuits and drank coffee in a room filled with love and humanity. I will definitely go back. ❤️